Match report

Yoann Huget try ensures Scotland’s 20-year losing Paris run continues

Stat-attack: “France’s 17 point victory is their biggest in the Six Nations against anyone other than Italy since they won 28-9 against Wales eight years ago,” writes Simon Gleave, head of sports analysis, Gracenote.

Full-time: France 27-10 Scotland

Baptiste Serin scores the conversion with the final kick of the game and it’s all over at the Stade de France. It was a very impressive performance and victory for France, who scored four tries and had several more disallowed en route to victory. Scotland huffed and puffed but were ultimately too error-prone, not clinical enough and far too toothless up front.

TRY! France 25-10 Scotland

80+7 min:France 20-10 Scotland: The clock ticks on, with both teams looking for a bonus point. France have the ball on the Scottish line and look to have possibly gone over - Nic Berry signals for the TMO. Gregory Alldritt was in possession ... but the try is disallowed for double movement. France have another try disallowed. That’s three-and-a-half, if not four, the TMO has diddled them out of. France scrum on the Scottish five-metre line.

80+2 min France 20-10 Scotland: Scotland get to within four metres of the France line, but French resistance is stout. We’re on Phase 20. We’ll have no more, as Nic Berry blows for a France penalty. Actually scrap that - France play the ball long down the field and don’t manage to put it into touch.

TRY! France 20-10 Scotland

78 min France 20-3 Scotland: An uncharacteristically delighted French crowd strike up a rousing rendition of La Marseillaise which comes to a very abrupt end as Scotland score a long overdue try straight from the kick-off. Ali Price slides between the post after Scotland had taken dvantage of a wonderful kick-off by Blair Kinghorn. Even I’d score that conversion and the extra two points are duly added.

TRY! France 20-3 Scotland

75 min France 20-3 Scotland: France win their own scrum and look for the shove, driving towards the French line. Over they go, twisting and driving, with replacement No8 Gregory Alldritt picking the ball from his own feet and touching down. Baptiste Serin puts his conversion wide.

73 min France 15-3 Scotland: Five-metre scrum for France as they look to have been stopped inches short of the Scotland line. Gael Fikou claims his team have grounded the ball and it’s sent upstairs to the TMO. Ritchie had the ball and was shoved backwards over his own line and grounds the ball at the bottom of a ruck before the ball is engulfed in assorted French hands. That’s the third “try” France have had disallowed now.

71 min France 15-3 Scotland: Blair Kinghorn gallops into space and looks around for support before getting swamped by three French defenders. France have emptied their bench too but are looking very leggy.

70 min France 15-3 Scotland: There’s a bit of pushing and shoving between both sets of players, which prompts referee Nic Berry to tell both captains to tell their teams to behave themselves. This, meanwhile, from our anorak-wearing man, Simon Gleave, at Gracenote: “France have failed to win on six of the last eight occasions that they have held a half-time lead in an international match, losing five and drawing one,” he says.

69 minFrance 15-3 Scotland: Unlike his footballing namesake, Will, Scotland centre Nick Grigg is not on fire. He runs into Yoann Huget, who strips him of possession and ruins a promising Scotland move in the process.

64 minFrance 15-3 Scotland: France play it out wide and Nick Grigg puts in a brilliant tackle on Gael Fickou, before Adam Hastings wins a penalty under his own posts. Scotland use the break in play to empty their bench and bring on their six remaining substitutes.

63 minFrance 15-3 Scotland: Basteraud charges for the line, but is tackled a couple of metres short. Scotland are buckling under some extreme French pressure, here. Picamoles drives forward into a wall of Scottish resistance about three metres out.

61 minFrance 15-3 Scotland: Selfish play from Yoann Huget, who eschews several opportunities to pass to team-mates who could have waltzed over the Scottish line. He’s brought to ground a feew yards from the line and France win a penalty when a Scottish forward goes off his feet at the ruck. Five-metre scrum for France.

59 min France 15-3 Scotland: Adam Hastings, still on the field at out-half with Peter Horne at inside centre after Sam Johnson was substituted, sends a wonderful kick in behind the the French backline, prompting a bout of bickering between Thomas Ramos and Yoann Huget over who should have chased it.

55 min France 15-3 Scotland: Sean Maitland finds himself in possession on the touchline, galloping towards the French line. He’s tackled a few yards short and France clear their lines. Scotland line-out on the France 22. Scotland give away possession cheaply again, however, when Tommy Seymour knocks on. Ben Toolis has just replaced Jonny Gray in the Scottish second row.

52 min France 15-3 Scotland: Scotland get quick ball out to the left touchline and Kinghorn chips and chases, only to be beaten to the ball by Wenceslas Lauret. He’d knocked on in the build-up, so it wouldn’t have counted anyway.

50 min France 15-3 Scotland: There’s a break in play as Scotland winger Tommy Seymour receives treatment for an injury to his left wrist, which he injured while putting in a tackle. He’s passed fit to continue for now, despite looking in extreme discomfort.

44 min France 15-3 Scotland: Brilliant airborne take from Damian Pernaud a few yards in front of the Scottish line, the winger beating two Scotsmen to pluck an excellent Ntamack kick in behind from the sky. That’s outstanding.

45 min France 15-3 Scotland: Apologies for flashing up an incorrect score in the previous entry. Scotland are in possession just outside their own 22, but cede possession when Sam Johnson passes forward. His mistake in such a dangerous area earns him a rollocking from his skipper, Greig Laidlaw.

44 min France 15-3 Scotland: That was a marvellous try, featuring strong running, several excellent offloads, a charge and a delightful chip-and-gather from Mathieu Basteraud before Huget went over. Scotland’s only touch of the ball in this half before France scored was their own kick-off.

Second half: France 10-3 Scotland

Half-time: France 10-3 Scotland

“Half-time, boys,” announces referee Nic Berry after a shrill blast on his whistle as the ball bounces out of play near the halway line. France have dominated, showing flashes of their former selves with a wonderful counter-attacking

France fans have more to celebrate so far Photograph: Billy Stickland/INPHO/REX/Shutterstock

40 min France 10-3 Scotland: A period of sustained French pressure, in which they made no ground whatsoever, comes to an end almost exactly where it started after Sebastien Vahaamahina knocks on as he stretches to catch a pass. Scotland scrum on their own 22 and the clock is in the red zone.

37 min France 10-3 Scotland: Guilhem Guirado is back on for France. Winger Yoann Huget, whose spell on the Naughty Step is finished, also returns to the field. France put-in, just outside the Scotland 22.

36 min France 10-3 Scotland: Scotland win a cheap penalty for offside and Blair Kinghorn kicks for touch. Scotland line-out just inside the French 22. Wenceslas Lauret steals the ball and another opportunity is wasted by Scotland as they throw long.

34 min France 10-3 Scotland: Down to 14 men for another two minutes, France lead by seven points and have missed one easy(ish) penalty and had two tries disallowed. That’s a potential 17 points they’ve left behind them so far – a sign of their dominance, but will they be punished for their carelessness?